Party Time

Hola!

Thursday was Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas aka no school in honor of the veterans and fallen soldiers of the Malvinas War.  If you want to anger an Argentinean refer to the Islas Malvinas as the Falkland Islands--they are very sensitive. In celebration of our day off Stef and I decided to have a party at our apartment Wednesday night.  We wrote letters to out neighbors above, below, and next to us introducing ourselves as US foreign exchange students and explained that we were having a party and not to be concerned if there was noise. We stocked the fridge with beer, wine and spirits. About 20 of our exchange student friends were invited of which about 15 could make it. The party started around midnight, we hung out playing cards and the all american game of beer pong.  Around 2am there was a knock on our door.  Our Argentine neighbors wanted to join the fiesta, the letter of introduction was taken as an invitation! The neighbors brought friends and then their friends brought friends and the party grew to 30.  Someone brought a guitar and was leading sing-a-longs in the kitchen.  It was fun, for a while.  Then people started getting drunk.  Men my age, especially Argentines, can be very rude and forward.  People started getting clumsy and dropping glass bottles.  The floor became filthy and began to resemble bar tar.  People were getting louder and more belligerent. 

A friend of mine had taken off her heels and borrowed a pair of flip flops.  She decided to leave around 6am and on her way out we stepped in to my room to swap out the shoes.  The door to my bedroom was closed, odd.  The lights were off, strange.  There were two Argentineans lying down on my bed making out!!

My friends said they saw the crazy Mexican side of me at 6am on Thursday morning.  I told everyone to get out of my apartment and the party was over in not so eloquent terms.  The Argentineans left, it can't be said for the entire group, but I have to say I was surprised and disappointed by how rude so many of them were, both males and females.  Some of my friends hung around to help clean up a bit, we stayed up talking and watched the sunrise on Thursday morning.  It was raining and the sky was gray but there was the most beautiful arco iris (rainbow) I have ever seen arching over the neighborhood.

Stef and I spent Thursday doing homework and cleaning.  She mopped the floors twice and our apartment is now sparkling.

Hope everyone had a fun weekend!

xoxo,

Raquel